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What to Do With Your Defunct Humane Ai Pin
Humane’s Ai Pin stopped working today, turning the year-old wearable—which cost millions to build—into a paperweight. Here are some alternatives if you'd rather avoid the e-waste.
Following an acquisition by HP, Humane shut down many of the core features of the artificial intelligence-powered wearable and deleted user data, rendering it useless. It's a blip in the amount of e-waste generated in a year around the world —already at a crisis point —but Humane really should have offered a more responsible approach with the Ai Pin's demise. “Without transparent labeling of length of software support, or by taking away key features that were advertised, manufacturers might be violating the FTC Act by deceiving consumers," Gutterman says.
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